A caver reported that a sheep was stranded about 20m down a shaft into Rift Pot (Masongill). He offered to attempt to rescue it and report back. Meanwhile, team members were put on stand-by and one was tasked with checking the location. When the caver advised that the sheep had been returned safely to the fell, team members were stood down. Volunteer hours: 2 1/2
A caver reported that four companions (m, 59; f, 38; m, 26; m, 26) — two experienced and two less so — were unable to reach their ladder from the streamway up to the Roof Tunnel in Kingsdale Master Cave because of fast-flowing and rising water. As the first rescue team members began to move into the Roof Tunnel, they encountered the mispers making their way safely to the surface.…
A visitor (m, 37) slipped, while ‘taking a selfie’ on the ledge which runs behind the waterfall at Thornton Force on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. He fell and slithered the 3+ metres down onto rocks, below and was held there, temporarily by the force of the waterfall. Aided by a friend, he was able to stand and escape the water. He was standing and ‘seemed happy’ when the first CRO…
A visitor (m, 29) sustained an ankle injury, so that he was unable to put weight on it, near Pecca Falls on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. After splinting his ankle, team members assisted the casualty to a Land Rover, parked nearby. This returned him to the Trail car park for his girlfriend to drive him to hospital, on the way home. Volunteer hours: 18
